Lia Purpura, Parasol Mushroom (detail), featured in AGNI 102
Last Days
Translated from the Urdu by Andrew McCord
Published:
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
In addition to being the greatest Urdu poet of his generation, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, (1911–1984) was a prominent journalist, editor, and leftist.
Andrew McCord
Andrew McCord is translating poems for a projected book called Heart’s Companion: Last Poems of Faiz Ahmed Faiz. (updated 2002)
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